“Your Kids Can Eat at Home,” My Dad Said—So When the Waiter Returned, I Stood Up – The Archivist

has an order—God, man, woman. When you try to bypass that, when you try to be the man, you end up alone. You end up hard.”

He leaned forward. “A woman without a husband and children is like a fruit tree that never blossoms. You can be tall, you can be strong, but if you don’t bear fruit, you’re just firewood. Biologically useless.”

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